Datanex components
  • GRID
  • QDC
  • ETL
  • API
  • NET

  • Datanex™ GRID

    A high security, highly scalable, on-demand virtual server infrastructure that can host client applications and interact with the other components of the Datanex™ platform.

    • Reliable

      Your server is hosted on high performance hardware provided by IBM, and monitored by Sentry technicians and our command center.

    • Economical

      The Total Cost of Ownership of a GRID instance will be significantly less than the traditional hardware, network, and security components that would be required to duplicate the service.

    • Secure

      • Compliance

        • HIPAA
        • PCI Compliant
        • Verified Independently

      • Personnel

        All SDS personnel undergo criminal background, credit checks and drug tests.

      • Network

        • Multiple DMZs
        • Cisco gear
        • Intrusion Detection

      • Physical

        Physical security provided by Tier 4 (as defined by TIA-942) datacenters.

    • Scalable

      Provisioning additional resources is easy, and doesn’t require physical effort on your part.

    • Interoperable

      Easily and seamlessly connect your GRID instances to the other infrastructure components provided.

    • Controllable

      You have a complete server environment at your disposal, which includes full root and console access, in addition to remote reboot services.

  • Datanex™ QDC

    The Quantum Data Construct, a proprietary, ultra high performance, massively scalable distributed database with a shared-nothing architecture. Datanex™ QDC is built for quickly storing, retrieving, and aggregating Health Record Units (HRU) across multi-million populations of patients and providers involving petabytes of associated information.

    How It Works

    QDC is not a relational database like Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. Instead, QDC is a data store that distributes queries and receives responses back from a cluster of many different computing nodes, none of which are dependant on each other.

    • Astonishing Performance

      Perform aggregate queries or real-time lookups across hundreds of millions or billions of records in seconds.

    • High Availability

      QDC is spread across many different physical resources, both within data centers and geographic areas.

    • Economical

      Most organizations cannot afford to provision a world class data store infrastructure like QDC on their own, but every organization benefits from fast information access. QDC is a cost effective solution to organizations of all size and type.

    • Redundancy

      Every piece of data is stored on at least three different physical resources, and at least two different geographic areas.

    Fast, Shared-Nothing, Redundant Everything

    QDC distributes both queries and storage across many different compute nodes. There can be as many as thousands of these nodes, and they are located in geographically separate data centers. All data received is replicated across at least three nodes, and across at least two geographically separate data centers, ensuring that a node can fail without impacting the performance of reliability of the cluster at large.

    Billions and Billions of Records

    Relational databases perform very well when your dataset is limited to hundreds of millions of records. Once your dataset grows to tens of billions of records, performance problems become acute, and the costs associated with maintaining and servicing this type of database grow faster than any performance gains. QDC scales to trillions of records, and nodes can be queried trivially.

  • Datanex™ ETL

    An Extract, Transform and Load infrastructure and associated service provided by Sentry which focuses on quickly extracting healthcare data formats and standards, with an emphasis on grading the quality of data and alerting when certain error thresholds are breached.

    Painless Extraction

    Data extraction is often complicated and time consuming. Sentry’s ETL process provides Certified Third Party Installers to assist you in the extraction process. All major Hospital Information Systems (HIS) are supported, and Sentry has a library of reusable code for each that is used to drastically reduce install time and effort.

    High Performance Loading

    Once the cleansed, transformed data is ready, we compress it and load it at extremely high speeds, often splitting the data up into parallel chunks to import even faster. This allows us to conform to real-time demands for data processing and transport, while still providing all of the advantages of the Datanex™ Platform.

    Quality Transformation

    Once the raw data is delivered to Sentry, it gets transformed into common formats and during this process the data is cleansed and graded. During the grading/transformation process, we check the Presence/Timeliness of elements, the Format, the Type Validity, Link Quality, and Correctness.

    • Type Validity

      Are we getting the correct type of information? For example, do we get a number in an age field, or garbage text? For predefined fields like sex or diagnosis codes, are we getting valid values?

    • Presence/Timeliness

      Do we have the files/feeds we expect, when we expect them? This is easy enough to check, but often ignored by overworked staff or systems that can’t be configured to provide notifications of failure.

    • Link Quality

      For those fields that are expected to be identifiers that link data across sources, are we getting the “hit rates” that we expect when matching identifiers from source A against identifiers from source B?

    • Format

      The easiest determination to make, but still critical to catch errors, and when any sort of maintenance work is performed, formats can unintentionally change, causing downstream problems that often aren’t identified.

    • Correctness

      Is what we’re seeing in this field consistent with what we’ve seen before? Anomalies can occur at this layer that can seriously impact performance of downstream applications.

  • Datanex™ API

    The Application Programming Interface that provides for communication between Datanex™ QDC, the Datanex™ GRID, and customer applications. The Datanex™ API provides a rich toolkit to developers who need to access and utilize healthcare data, while not worrying about the underlying details.

    Standard Tools Provided

    The Datanex™ API provides several key features that allow you to focus on building world class applications.

    • Authentication and User Management

      Authentication services are provided for you and your applications, along with powerful user management functions that allow you to create, update, delete, and audit users.

    • Application Registration and Delivery

      Register your applications with the Datanex™ Platform, and have your application appear within the Datanex™ web application portal.

    • Intra-Application Messaging Layer

      Use our redundant, standards based, high performance message broker system to transfer messages between applications.

    • GRID Health and Application Health Monitoring

      Create and receive notifications and alerts about your GRID instances and Applications.

    • Query Support

      Write queries for Datanex QDC using our powerful query API. Queries can also be constructed using the XQuery language.

    A Variety of Modern Languages Supported

    Bindings are provided for a variety of modern languages, including C, C#, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Build your application using any of the languages above, and hook them into the Datanex™ Platform with ease.

  • Datanex™ NET

    The secure Network Transport and Interoperability layer that brokers healthcare transactions between Datanex™ Platform instances and serves as a digital highway for platform subscribers.

    Interoperability Redefined

    The Datanex™ Platform Network component redefines what’s possible when it comes to interoperability.

    • Format Agnostic Transport

      Write queries for Datanex QDC using our powerful query API. Queries can also be constructed using the XQuery language.

    • Modern, Standards Based Protocols

      Use our redundant, standards based, high performance message broker system to transfer messages between applications.

    • Queuing Support is Standard

      Define message queues, delivery parameters, and know that your messages will arrive.

    • Report on Your Transport

      Anything that’s transported via the Datanex™ Platform is automatically captured and logged within QDC for fast reporting, auditing, and aggregation.